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9. Waiting For the Sirens' CallReleased: 28 March 2005240 points, 14 Votes
― Bee OK, Thursday, 30 May 2013 05:53 (eleven years ago) link
after going back and revisiting all the albums this past couple of weeks, sirens call has aged surprisingly well
― i worked myself into a clam (electricsound), Thursday, 30 May 2013 05:55 (eleven years ago) link
imo
I love it. Great album. Not sure why everyone slates Dracula's Castle.
― brotherlovesdub, Thursday, 30 May 2013 06:00 (eleven years ago) link
Los Angeles time
― Bee OK, Thursday, 30 May 2013 06:10 (eleven years ago) link
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8. Get ReadyReleased: 27 August 2001Acclaimed Music ranking: 45 2001 - 373 2000's decade257 Points, 15 Votes
― Bee OK, Thursday, 30 May 2013 06:15 (eleven years ago) link
xp
The album sounds merely okay to my ears these days, but I never had a problem with Dracula's Castle.
― Millsner, Thursday, 30 May 2013 06:15 (eleven years ago) link
THEORY:
Since the results have been reverse-chronological so far, Movement is a shoe-in for #1 :)
― Millsner, Thursday, 30 May 2013 06:16 (eleven years ago) link
I guess it's understandable that the albums they released 20-30 years after their first releases are ranked lowest but they're really great albums. Predictably, Republic will be next.
― brotherlovesdub, Thursday, 30 May 2013 06:18 (eleven years ago) link
Movement at 3 or 4, imo. Either Low-Life or PCL at 2.
― brotherlovesdub, Thursday, 30 May 2013 06:19 (eleven years ago) link
shoo-in, even.
I'd give Republic 60/40 odds over Brotherhood for being next. I always had the impression that the former has some real fans here.
― Millsner, Thursday, 30 May 2013 06:21 (eleven years ago) link
BTW, if anyone has a copy of Get Ready or WFTSC on vinyl that they want to sell or trade, i'm interested.
― brotherlovesdub, Thursday, 30 May 2013 06:35 (eleven years ago) link
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7.SubstanceReleased: 17 August 1987268 Points, 10 Votes, 4 Number Ones
― Bee OK, Thursday, 30 May 2013 06:38 (eleven years ago) link
It's a great compilation but it's not an album. It took me about 2 years of living with this compilation but eventually Disc 2 became my favorite. I've since had to buy a 2nd copy of disc 2. Would love one of the gatefold LPs. I have it on vinyl but not one of the gatefold versions.
― brotherlovesdub, Thursday, 30 May 2013 07:05 (eleven years ago) link
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6. RepublicReleased: 3 May 1993Acclaimed Music ranking: 40 1993, 428 90's decade310 Points, 18 Votes, 1 Number One
― Bee OK, Thursday, 30 May 2013 07:10 (eleven years ago) link
I think Republic is the best collection of lyrics Bernard Sumner ever wrote. The mess with Factory provide some great content for him.
― brotherlovesdub, Thursday, 30 May 2013 07:20 (eleven years ago) link
of course that is it for the night.
will start again when i wake up (boo).
― Bee OK, Thursday, 30 May 2013 07:49 (eleven years ago) link
I think the top five might go,
5. Brotherhood4. Low-Life3. Movement2. Power, Corruption & Lies1. Technique
I would have liked to see Republic in the top five, it's their most underrated album.
― Kitchen Person, Thursday, 30 May 2013 08:38 (eleven years ago) link
I'd have thought PCL for 'top', the rest, yes.
― Mark G, Thursday, 30 May 2013 08:56 (eleven years ago) link
16 Here To Stay 1
aw, nobody else voted for the vid?
― 乒乓, Thursday, 30 May 2013 11:01 (eleven years ago) link
Sumner's best lyrics on the first Electronic album.
― A deeper shade of lol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 30 May 2013 11:20 (eleven years ago) link
Can't believe Republic outranked Substance and Get Ready. To this day I still feel ripped off by that album. Technique was like this amazing new vista after they had played out their second great phase, and then they phoned in the next album.Maybe I should go back and listen to it again, it's been probably 15 years since I got it off the shelf.
― MatthewK, Thursday, 30 May 2013 12:22 (eleven years ago) link
well, Substance isn't an album, and Get Ready is post-peak. Republic's position makes sense.
― A deeper shade of lol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 30 May 2013 12:24 (eleven years ago) link
I'm one of the folks who voted for Substance... technically not an album but a singles collection sure, but during the years I had it on constant rotation that distinction meant nothing to me at all. I still remember finally getting a CD player and immediately buying Substance for access to the second disc of b-sides.
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Thursday, 30 May 2013 13:58 (eleven years ago) link
yeah I agree re. Substance, it's enough of an album to have gotten my vote, and it's a really important record for me personally in the NO canon.
― Neil S, Thursday, 30 May 2013 14:07 (eleven years ago) link
I wasn't going to vote for it until I saw that other people were
― they are either militarists (ugh) or kangaroos (?) (DJP), Thursday, 30 May 2013 14:07 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah I voted for Substance - it's easily the record of theirs I've played most.
― kraudive, Thursday, 30 May 2013 14:13 (eleven years ago) link
Lots of people apparently consider it an album.
― brotherlovesdub, Thursday, 30 May 2013 14:25 (eleven years ago) link
Psychologically I file it with Louder Than Bombs -- sure it was a singles collection to some people, but it was the only thing available to me so I played it to death while my brain was still forming and therefore it is an album.
― free your spirit pig (La Lechera), Thursday, 30 May 2013 14:30 (eleven years ago) link
this is how I saw it, too.
as a budding new order fan, it was also the only way I could make sense of their early singles catalogue.
― Millsner, Thursday, 30 May 2013 14:35 (eleven years ago) link
Two of my first six CDs were Substance!
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Thursday, 30 May 2013 14:58 (eleven years ago) link
Is that because it's a double cd or did you buy it twice?
― brotherlovesdub, Thursday, 30 May 2013 15:10 (eleven years ago) link
Two of my first six CDs were Substance but one was by Joy Division
― ¬╡▫ ▫╞⌠ (sic), Thursday, 30 May 2013 15:23 (eleven years ago) link
The other was by Bocca Juniors.
― Mark G, Thursday, 30 May 2013 16:17 (eleven years ago) link
Factory Records and Boys Own were my cultural centers. Unfortunately, I was on a one man island, isolated from what was happening and only able to read about it in British publications a month or three after the fact.
― brotherlovesdub, Thursday, 30 May 2013 16:30 (eleven years ago) link
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5 BrotherhoodReleased: 29 September 1986Acclaimed Music ranking: 34 1986, 306 80's Decade, 1605 All-Time469 Points, 24 Votes
― Bee OK, Thursday, 30 May 2013 17:54 (eleven years ago) link
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4. MovementReleased: 13 November 1981544 Points, 24 Votes, 4 Number Ones
― Bee OK, Thursday, 30 May 2013 18:11 (eleven years ago) link
thought this would be higher
― Dr X O'Skeleton, Thursday, 30 May 2013 18:17 (eleven years ago) link
should be #1
boooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
― they are either militarists (ugh) or kangaroos (?) (DJP), Thursday, 30 May 2013 18:18 (eleven years ago) link
getting that 9 corrected
― Bee OK, Thursday, 30 May 2013 18:21 (eleven years ago) link
#9?!
― free your spirit pig (La Lechera), Thursday, 30 May 2013 18:22 (eleven years ago) link
the first time i heard movement i was around 12, it was playing in a record store downtown and i asked the clerk if it was joy division and he snickered and said 'uh NO. it's new order.' i'd always filed it as awkward and them finding their sea legs, probably would've slotted behind brotherhood for the longest time but the reissues a couple of years back (and specifically disc two of the movement one being my favorite volume or whatever of new order period) really raised it in my estimation, i think i had it third but just barely.
― balls, Thursday, 30 May 2013 18:25 (eleven years ago) link
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3. Low-LifeReleased: 13 May 1985Acclaimed Music ranking: 7 1985, 66 80's Decade, 444 All-time633 Points, 28 Votes, 1 Number One
― Bee OK, Thursday, 30 May 2013 18:31 (eleven years ago) link
I would like Low-Life so much were it not for the album versions of the singles and "Face Up"
― they are either militarists (ugh) or kangaroos (?) (DJP), Thursday, 30 May 2013 18:31 (eleven years ago) link
i love the face up intro fake out
― 乒乓, Thursday, 30 May 2013 18:34 (eleven years ago) link
i don't know what's NOT to love about 'face up' but w/e
― free your spirit pig (La Lechera), Thursday, 30 May 2013 18:35 (eleven years ago) link
woo!
Trying to think of a wider gap in quality between the album and single versions of a song than "Subculture". Coming up short.
― Vinnie, Thursday, 30 May 2013 18:37 (eleven years ago) link
album sub-culture towers over the single is what I hope you're saying
― Millsner, Thursday, 30 May 2013 18:38 (eleven years ago) link
the queasy, unsteady vocals enhance the middle stretch of the album (basically "This Time of Night" through "Sooner Than You Think", which I believe is their finest run of songs off of the albums between Movement and Technique) but absolutely destroy the rest of the album, particularly "Face Up" and the album version of "Subculture"
― they are either militarists (ugh) or kangaroos (?) (DJP), Thursday, 30 May 2013 18:40 (eleven years ago) link